{"id":223,"date":"2006-01-04T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-01-03T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T20:48:24","slug":"the-pentagon-is-spying-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-pentagon-is-spying-on-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon is spying on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’re not actually <\/p>\n

surprised that domestic spying will prove extremely profitable to a few large corporations, are you? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?<\/a>
\nBy <\/p>\n

Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella and the NBC Investigative Unit
\nUpdated: 6:18 p.m. ET Dec. 14, 2005<\/p>\n

A year ago, at <\/p>\n

a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, Fla., a small group of activists met to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high <\/p>\n

schools. What they didn’t know was that their meeting had come to the attention of the U.S. military<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A secret <\/p>\n

400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News lists the Lake Worth meeting as a \u201cthreat\u201d<\/strong> and one of more <\/p>\n

than 1,500 \u201csuspicious incidents\u201d across the country over a recent 10-month period.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis peaceful, educationally oriented group <\/p>\n

being a threat is incredible,\u201d says Evy Grachow, a member of the Florida group called The Truth Project. …<\/p>\n

The DOD database <\/p>\n

obtained by NBC News includes nearly four dozen anti-war meetings or protests<\/strong>, including some that have taken place far <\/p>\n

from any military installation, post or recruitment center. …<\/p>\n

Other documents obtained by NBC News show that the Defense <\/p>\n

Department is clearly increasing its domestic monitoring activities<\/strong>. …<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Americans should be concerned that the military, in fact, has reached too far,\u201d<\/strong> says NBC <\/p>\n

News military analyst Bill Arkin. …<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means that they\u2019re actually collecting information about who\u2019s at those protests, the <\/p>\n

descriptions of vehicles at those protests,\u201d says Arkin. \u201cOn the domestic level, this is unprecedented,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it’s the <\/p>\n

beginning of enormous problems and enormous mischief for the military.\u201d …<\/p>\n

Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) is becoming <\/p>\n

the superpower of data mining within the U.S.<\/strong> national security community. Its \u201coperational and analytical records\u201d <\/p>\n

include \u201creports of investigation, collection reports, statements of individuals, affidavits, correspondence, and other documentation <\/p>\n

pertaining to investigative or analytical efforts\u201d by the DOD and other U.S. government agencies to identify terrorist and other threats. <\/p>\n

Since March 2004, CIFA has awarded at least $33 million in contracts to corporate giants Lockheed Martin, Unisys <\/p>\n

Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation and Northrop Grumman<\/strong> to develop databases that comb through classified and <\/p>\n

unclassified government data, commercial information and Internet chatter to help sniff out terrorists, saboteurs and spies. …<\/p>\n

Bert Tussing, director of Homeland Defense and Security Issues at the U.S. Army War College and a former Marine, says \u201cthere is <\/p>\n

very little that could justify the collection of domestic intelligence by the Unites States military. If we start going down this <\/p>\n

slippery slope it would be too easy to go back to a place we never want to see again,\u201d<\/strong> he says.<\/p>\n

Some of the targets of <\/p>\n

the U.S. military\u2019s recent collection efforts say they have already gone too far.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s absolute paranoia \u2014 at the highest levels of our government,\u201d<\/strong> says Hersh of The Truth <\/p>\n

Project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we’re based here at the Quaker Meeting House,\u201d says Truth Project member Marie Zwicker, \u201cand several of us are <\/p>\n

Quakers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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